½ Penny - Peek Tea Stores Sydney; New South Wales

Features

Issuer	New South Wales (Australian States)
Type	Emergency coinage › Merchant tokens
Year	1852
Value	1 Penny (1⁄240)
Currency	Pound sterling (1788-1900)
Composition	Copper
Weight	9 g
Diameter	28 mm
Shape	Round (Crudely struck.)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 324857
References	Andrews# A428 Arthur Andrews; 1965. Australasian tokens and coins: a handbook . Trustees of the Mitchell Library, Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. , R# 544 Michael T. Pitt, Paul Bickerton, Mike Loy, Simon Gray; 2012. Renniks Australian & New Zealand Tokens Values (1^st edition). Renniks Publications, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. , Gray# 224 Simon Gray; 2013. A Study of Australasian Trade Tokens: An Illustrated Reference of the Merchants Tokens used in Colonial Australia & New Zealand. Self-published, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

Obverse

Britannia.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
BRITANNIA
1852

Reverse

The Peek & Campbell Tea Stores building in Sydney.
Peek & Campbell ceased by 1844. Tokens most likely issued by Samuel Peek & Co. or S.Peek & Co.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
TEA
STORES
ESTABLISHED
1835
SYDNEY

Edge

Plain.

Mint

J.C. Thornthwaite, Sydney, Australia (1820)

Comments

Variable die alignments are known for this piece.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1852												A428/R544 Gray 224

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